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Informationen zum Autor Eboo Patel is the Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international organization that brings young people from different faith communities together to build understanding and cooperation. He earned his doctorate in the Sociology of Religion from the University of Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. Patel is a regular guest on Chicago Public Radio and a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed pages of The Chicago Tribune. Additionally, he has written for The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, Utne Magazine, The Journal of Muslim Law and Culture and National Public Radio. He serves on the Boards of the International Interfaith Center, CrossCurrents Magazine and Duke University's Islamic Studies Center. Patel has been featured in a range of media, including The New Republic, NPR, the BBC, and CNN. He is a sought-after speaker, and his addresses include the keynote speech at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum with President Jimmy Carter and the Baccalaureate Service Address at the University of Pennsylvania. Patel is an Ashoka Fellow, part of an elite network of social entrepreneurs with ideas that have the potential to change the world. Patrice Brodeur has recently been appointed Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism,and Globalization at the University of Montreal in the Faculty of Theology and the Science of Religions. Born in Canada and educated in Israel and Jordan, he obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999. He has published on a variety of mostly contemporary subjects in Islamic and Religious Studies, from theory to applied religion. He has been active internationally in the field of interreligious dialogue and has begun articulating theoretical implications for the interdisciplinary academic study of religion. He was a fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University (1997D1998) and received a summer National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study Islam at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University (1999). Klappentext Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and cooperation. Zusammenfassung Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and cooperation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 CONTEXTS OF INTERFAITH YOUTH WORK Chapter 5 Affirming Identity, Acheiving Pluralism Chapter 6 Young Adult Development, Religious Identity, and Interreligious Solidarity in an Interfaith Learning Community Chapter 7 Theologies of Interreligious Encounters and Their Relevance to Youth Part 8 INTERNATIONAL INTERFAITH ORGANIZATIONS Chapter 9 Towards a Transnational Interfaith Youth Network in Higher Education Chapter 10 The Gujarat Young Adult Project of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) Chapter 11 Youth Leadership Chapter 12 The Next Generation Part 13 HIGHER EDUCATION Chapter 14 Youth and the Pluralism Project Chapter 15 Seminarians Interacting Chapter 16 Towards a Multifaith Community at Wellesley College Chapter 17 Bringing Interfaith to the University of Illinois Chapter 18 Ariculating What is at Stake in Interreligious Work Part 19 SECONDARY EDUCATION Chapter 20 Teaching World Religions Chapter 21 Secondary School Teacher Training in Religious Studies Chapter 22 Training Teachers in American Religious Diversity Part 23 COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS Chapter 24 The Interfaith Youth Core Chapter 25 Interfaith Youth Leadership Council of the Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houst...
